Product Management Intern, Wirecutter

EducationPals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Wirecutter’s newsroom is seeking a Product Manager Intern to join the Publishing Platform team in New York. You’ll help build and improve the tools and storytelling experiences used by editors and readers, collaborating with product, design, and engineering to support editorial workflows.

In this role you’ll participate in planning, design reviews, and demos, gaining hands-on exposure to how a product team works and how platforms are shaped to improve content creation and sharing.

Responsibilities

• Understand the people we build for: Join conversations with editors and other stakeholders to learn how they work, where the friction is, and what a better workflow looks like.
• Help organize and prioritize opportunities: Collect and structure ideas and requests so the team can prioritize them using established frameworks.
• Learn how the platform works: Build a working understanding of the technologies behind our publishing tools and how engineers assess feasibility.
• Learn how a product team works: Take part in planning, design reviews, and demos, and build working relationships across a cross-functional team.

Job description

Wirecutter’s newsroom relies on our publishing platform to write, edit, and share the recommendations our readers trust. As a Product Manager Intern on the Publishing Platform team, you’ll join the team building and improving those tools and storytelling experiences. You’ll contribute to active product work alongside product, design, and engineering, and your work will support tools and experiences for our editorial colleagues and our audiences. Depending on team priorities, your

• Understand the people we build for:Join conversations with editors and other stakeholders to learn how they work, where the friction is, and what a better workflow looks like.
• Help organize and prioritize opportunities: Collect and structure ideas and requests so the team can prioritize them using established frameworks.
• Learn how the platform works: Build a working understanding of the technologies behind our publishing tools and how engineers assess feasibility.
• Learn how a product team works: Take part in planning, design reviews, and demos, and build working relationships across a cross-functional team.

Courses relevant to this posting

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Coming-soon courses matched to this posting: outline, waitlist, and skill path.

1. Platform Economics and Business Models

Understand how connected TV platforms generate recurring revenue beyond hardware sales through advertising, content partnerships, and app distribution.

2. Home Screen Design and Content Discovery

Design the primary interface that controls content visibility, app placement, and advertising inventory while maintaining user trust.

3. App Ecosystem and Distribution Strategy

Build and manage the app marketplace that determines which content services reach viewers and how platform value is shared.

4. Advertising Infrastructure and Inventory Management

Implement the ad stack that turns viewing into revenue while respecting user experience and privacy constraints.

5. Measurement, Analytics, and Attribution

Build systems that track viewing behavior, ad performance, and content engagement to prove platform value to advertisers and partners.

6. FAST Channels and Always-On Content Strategies

Design and operate free ad-supported streaming television channels that combine the simplicity of linear TV with digital monetization.

7. Platform Tradeoffs and Strategic Decision-Making

Navigate the competing demands of monetization, performance, privacy, and user trust to build sustainable platform products.

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